Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 251 304
Rank change year-on-year -97 +53 -9
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 594 566 637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.14% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.28% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 310 257 306
10th Percentile £36,700 £44,399 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £80,938 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £64,108
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.51% -1.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -86 524 £60,000 -17.24% 1,883
London -32 299 £70,561 -11.80% 1,236
UK excluding London -122 237 £60,000 -4.00% 768
Work from Home -9 190 £58,940 -15.80% 759
North of England -44 64 £60,000 -23.81% 143
South East -100 58 £43,500 -30.40% 192
North West +7 50 £63,000 -8.36% 87
Midlands -36 37 £48,500 -24.81% 116
South West -57 36 £60,000 - 89
West Midlands -35 27 £48,500 -15.65% 69
East of England -36 22 £70,000 +6.87% 79
Scotland +4 13 £77,500 +82.35% 93
Yorkshire -41 13 £57,500 -29.23% 40
East Midlands -29 10 £38,347 -48.87% 47
Northern Ireland -84 4 - - 38
Wales -76 3 £65,000 +13.18% 18
North East -60 1 - - 16

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (7.41%) Confluence
2 21 (3.54%) CMS
3 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.51%) Drupal
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.18%) Moqups
6 5 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.34%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (3.37%) Workfront
2 13 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.84%) SAP PSCD
4 5 (0.84%) Shopify
5 3 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.51%) iTrent
6 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.17%) Eikon
7 1 (0.17%) Magento
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.17%) RMDS
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 75 (12.63%) SaaS
2 68 (11.45%) AWS
3 38 (6.40%) Azure
4 20 (3.37%) iPaaS
5 17 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.53%) Figma
6 15 (2.53%) GCP
6 15 (2.53%) Google Workspace
7 11 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.18%) GitHub
9 7 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.84%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (0.84%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.84%) Zapier
12 4 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (0.67%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.38%) HTTP
2 24 (4.04%) Broadband
3 11 (1.85%) Firewall
4 10 (1.68%) WAN
5 8 (1.35%) DNS
5 8 (1.35%) LAN
6 7 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.01%) DHCP
7 6 (1.01%) NX-OS
8 5 (0.84%) MPLS
9 4 (0.67%) Multicast
9 4 (0.67%) SAN
10 3 (0.51%) CTI
10 3 (0.51%) Internet
10 3 (0.51%) Intranet
10 3 (0.51%) Network Security
10 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.51%) VSAT
10 3 (0.51%) WLAN
11 2 (0.34%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.04%) Metadata
2 16 (2.69%) Power BI
3 8 (1.35%) Big Data
4 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.01%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.34%) MySQL
8 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.17%) Db2
9 1 (0.17%) GIS
9 1 (0.17%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.17%) Redis
9 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (11.78%) JIRA
2 11 (1.85%) Git
3 10 (1.68%) Claude Code
4 9 (1.52%) GitLab
4 9 (1.52%) Selenium
5 8 (1.35%) Postman
6 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.84%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.67%) JUnit
9 2 (0.34%) TestNG
10 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (31.99%) Social Skills
2 180 (30.30%) Finance
3 160 (26.94%) Marketing
4 92 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (13.47%) Law
6 71 (11.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (11.45%) Banking
8 55 (9.26%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (6.90%) Retail
10 40 (6.73%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (6.23%) Manufacturing
11 37 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (5.89%) Public Sector
13 24 (4.04%) Legal
14 22 (3.70%) Electronics
15 20 (3.37%) Telecoms
16 17 (2.86%) Publishing
17 14 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (2.02%) Financial Institution
19 9 (1.52%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 159 (26.77%) Product Manager
2 92 (15.49%) Lead
3 69 (11.62%) Senior
4 51 (8.59%) Product Owner
5 47 (7.91%) Software Engineer
6 35 (5.89%) Lead Software Engineer
7 33 (5.56%) Senior Manager
8 27 (4.55%) Development Engineer
8 27 (4.55%) Software Development Engineer
9 23 (3.87%) Product Lead
10 20 (3.37%) Senior Product Manager
11 16 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (2.53%) Development Manager
12 15 (2.53%) Technical Manager
13 14 (2.36%) Architect
14 12 (2.02%) Business Analyst
14 12 (2.02%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (2.02%) Marketing Manager
14 12 (2.02%) Project Manager
15 11 (1.85%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.06%) REST
2 18 (3.03%) HTML
3 15 (2.53%) Google Maps API
4 13 (2.19%) React
5 11 (1.85%) Terraform
6 9 (1.52%) LangChain
6 9 (1.52%) XML
7 8 (1.35%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.35%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.18%) Spring
9 6 (1.01%) Pandas
9 6 (1.01%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.84%) CrewAI
10 5 (0.84%) CSS
10 5 (0.84%) LlamaIndex
10 5 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.67%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.67%) Node.js
11 4 (0.67%) NumPy
11 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 175 (29.46%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.57%) Management Information System
3 37 (6.23%) AI Agents
4 30 (5.05%) Public Cloud
4 30 (5.05%) Social Media
5 29 (4.88%) Onboarding
6 22 (3.70%) Marketing Technology
7 20 (3.37%) Over-the-Top Content
8 16 (2.69%) Augmented Reality
9 15 (2.53%) Cloud Native
9 15 (2.53%) Virtual Reality
10 14 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (2.02%) Biopharmaceutical
11 12 (2.02%) Driving Licence
11 12 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.02%) Online Banking
12 11 (1.85%) Web Conferencing
13 10 (1.68%) Blog
13 10 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.86%) Linux
2 16 (2.69%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (52.53%) Roadmaps
2 207 (34.85%) Agile
3 165 (27.78%) Product Roadmap
4 157 (26.43%) AI
5 145 (24.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 140 (23.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 123 (20.71%) Decision-Making
8 106 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (17.68%) Product Strategy
10 100 (16.84%) Customer Experience
11 95 (15.99%) Product Vision
12 88 (14.81%) Analytics
12 88 (14.81%) Project Management
13 86 (14.48%) Software Engineering
14 85 (14.31%) User Stories
15 84 (14.14%) Product Backlog
16 71 (11.95%) Strategic Roadmap
16 71 (11.95%) User Experience
17 70 (11.78%) Coaching
18 69 (11.62%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (7.74%) Java
2 42 (7.07%) Python
3 16 (2.69%) SQL
4 12 (2.02%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.02%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.85%) C++
6 9 (1.52%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.84%) ABAP
8 4 (0.67%) Bash
8 4 (0.67%) C#
8 4 (0.67%) R
9 3 (0.51%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.51%) PHP
10 2 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 148 (24.92%) Degree
2 43 (7.24%) Master's Degree
3 32 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 31 (5.22%) MBA
5 27 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.85%) HND
8 10 (1.68%) HNC
8 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.52%) PhD
9 9 (1.52%) PMP
10 7 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.18%) CSPO
10 7 (1.18%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.01%) CCNA
11 6 (1.01%) MCSE
12 5 (0.84%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.57%) QA
2 18 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.53%) SLA
4 13 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.52%) PMO
6 7 (1.18%) GDPR
7 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) DICOM
8 2 (0.34%) HL7
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.34%) NIST
8 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) PERC
9 1 (0.17%) SEPA
9 1 (0.17%) TARGET2
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (1.52%) Docker
1 9 (1.52%) Firmware
1 9 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.01%) vSphere
3 5 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.01%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.51%) WSUS
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 51 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.05%) Salesforce
3 24 (4.04%) Google
4 23 (3.87%) Adobe
5 17 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.53%) Cisco
6 15 (2.53%) Facebook
7 13 (2.19%) SAP
8 12 (2.02%) Oracle
8 12 (2.02%) Workday
9 9 (1.52%) VMware
10 6 (1.01%) Juniper
11 5 (0.84%) FIS
11 5 (0.84%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.84%) YouTube
12 3 (0.51%) Aderant
12 3 (0.51%) Civica
12 3 (0.51%) iManage
12 3 (0.51%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.51%) ServiceNow